Name
Victor Varconi
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1891-03-30
Deathday
1976-06-06 (85 years old)
Place of Birth
Kisvárda, Austria-Hungary
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Victor Varconi (born Mihály Várkonyi, 31 March 1891 – 6 June 1976) was a highly successful silent film actor in Hungary. Born in Kisvárda, Austria-Hungary, Varconi was the first Hungarian actor to make a film in the United States. His normal speaking accent sounded almost exactly like that of Transylvanian Bela Lugosi.
He worked under contract to Cecil B. DeMille, and played Pontius Pilate in DeMille's 1927 production of The King of Kings.
Because of his accent, Varconi's popularity waned with the advent of sound films and he was cast in smaller parts, often playing Hispanic characters. He worked on the New York City stage and wrote for radio.
He died from a heart attack in Santa Barbara, California on 6 June 1976 at the age of 85. He was interred at the Calvary Cemetery, East Los Angeles, California, US.
Known For
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When strongman Samson rejects the love of the beautiful Philistine woman Delilah, she seek...
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England, 1763. After being convicted of a crime, the young and beautiful Abigail Hale agre...
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Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in l...
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The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. ...
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Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like fi...
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The Florida Keys in 1840, where the implacable hurricanes of the Caribbean scream, where t...
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Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, and Buffalo Bill go up against Indians and a gunrunner....
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In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadv...
- 1935 Roberta as Ladislaw
- 1937 Trouble in Morocco as Kamaroff
- 1957 The Man Who Turned to Stone as Dr. Myer
- 1917 A tanítónö
- 1959 The Atomic Submarine as Clifford Kent
- 1926 The Volga Boatman as Prince Dimitri
- 1914 The Yellow Foal
- 1918 The Scorpion as Jean Morell
- 1942 Reap the Wild Wind as Lubbock
- 1931 The Black Camel as Robert Fyfe
- 1947 Where There's Life as Finance Minister Zavitch
- 1939 The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle as Grand Duke
- 1940 Strange Cargo as Fisherman
- 1935 Mister Dynamite as Jarl Dvorjak
- 1937 Big City as Paul Roya
- 1931 Safe in Hell as General Emmanuel Jesus Maria Gomez
- 1947 Unconquered as Captain Simeon Ecuyer
- 1924 Changing Husbands as Oliver Evans
- 1939 Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation as Paul Borodoff
- 1942 My Favorite Blonde as Miller
- 1929 Eternal Love as Lorenz Gruber
- 1915 Bánk bán
- 1918 Hotel Imperial
- 1928 The Divine Lady as Horatio Nelson
- 1917 The Wolf as Szabó Gyuri
- 1927 Chicago as Amos Hart
- 1939 Everything Happens at Night as Cavas
- 1938 King of the Newsboys as Wire Arno
- 1937 Men in Exile as Gomez
- 1936 Dancing Pirate as Don Balthazar (Monterey Captain of the Guards)
- 1941 Federal Fugitives as Otto Lieberman
- 1915 The Undesirable as Miklós
- 1935 A Feather in Her Hat as Paul Anders
- 1933 The Song You Gave Me as Karl Linden
- 1931 Men in Her Life as Count Ivan Karloff
- 1938 Suez as Victor Hugo
- 1944 The Hitler Gang as Rudolph Hess
- 1917 Mágnás Miska as Baracs (as Várkonyi Mihály)
- 1926 The Last Days of Pompeii as Glauco
- 1927 The Forbidden Woman as Col. Gautier
- 1930 Captain Thunder as El Captain Thunder
- 1927 The Little Adventuress as George La Fuente
- 1928 Tenth Avenue as Bob Peters
- 1927 The Angel of Broadway as Jerry Wilson
- 1930 Mein Herz gehört Dir...
- 1949 Samson and Delilah as Lord of Ashdod
- 1936 The Plainsman as Painted Horse
- 1927 The King of Kings as Pontius Pilate - Governor of Judea
- 1931 Doctors' Wives as Dr. Kane Ruyter
- 1924 Feet of Clay as Bookkeeper
- 1930 The Cult of the Body as Czeslaw
- 1941 Forced Landing as Hendrick van Deuren (uncredited)
- 1938 Submarine Patrol as Italian Naval Chaplain Vanzano
- 1916 Havasi Magdolna
- 1923 Young Medardus as Medardus Klähr
- 1922 Sodom and Gomorrah as Priester des Lyzeums - Engel des Herrn
- 1923 Avalanche as George Vandeau
- 1942 They Raid by Night as Col. Otto von Ritter
- 1943 For Whom the Bell Tolls as Primitivo
- 1940 The Sea Hawk as Gen. Aguirre
- 1945 Scotland Yard Investigator as Jules
- 1940 Pound Foolish as Victor Lestrade
- 1939 Disputed Passage as Dr. LaFerriere
- 1947 Pirates of Monterey as Capt. Cordova
- 1943 Undercover: How to Operate Behind Enemy Lines as Enemy Security Officer
- 1932 The Rebel
- 1928 Sinners' Parade as Al Morton
- 1924 Triumph as William Silver
- 1930 The Warsaw Citadel
- 1922 The Blood
- 1920 The Red Peacock as Alfred Germont
- 1927 Fighting Love as Gabriel Amari
- 1925 L'uomo più allegro di Vienna
- 1932 The Doomed Battalion as Artur Franchini
- 1925 Her Dancing Partner as Edmund Chauvelin
- 1922 Masters of the Sea as Captain Scott
- 1926 Silken Shackles
- 1934 When London Sleeps as Stephen Ronsart
- 1917 A csikós as Andris, a csikóslegény
- 1926 For Wives Only as Dr. Rittenhaus
- 1922 Eine versunkene Welt
- 1924 Worldly Goods as Clifford Ramsay
- 1917 Mágia as Pal
- 1918 99 as Herr mit vielen Namen
- 1918 The Devil as Száki János, festõmüvész
- 1920 The Merry Widow as Danilo
- 1918 Magic Waltz as Niki hadnagy
- 1948 Studio One ( 1 episode )
- 1955 Alfred Hitchcock Presents ( 1 episode ) as Count d'Auberge
